Woohoo! V4.0 is out with community code. This is a major step forward for the .NET Micro Framework! I’m hoping to dive into core details in this blog in the future. (I know I’ve been silent here for a while, more like an eternity in the blogosphere. A lot of things have been going on…

The .NET Micro Framework V4.0 has gone into public beta. Congrats to the team for all the hard work getting this done with reduced resources and an uphill legal battle on the source code release! .NET Micro Framework : .NET Micro Framework 4.0 Goes to Beta!!!

In case you hadn’t noticed or seen it. The .NET Micro Framework Porting Kit V3.0 is now freely available on MS downloads. This isn’t a new version, it’s the same one we released in 3Q08. It’s just a free download now. Work is progressing on the next version so stay tuned Download details: .NET MF…

As many readers know (Wait, is there really more than one?) by now my position on the .NET Micro framework team was eliminated. I was given 60 days to find a job within Microsoft before termination and severance kicked in on July 4th. Last week I started to write a farewell as my final post….

Please see Colin’s post for official word on rumors about the demise of .NET Micro Framework. (Hint: he’s NOT dead Jim!) http://blogs.msdn.com/netmfteam/archive/2009/05/07/net-mf-moves-to-developer-division.aspx

In our last episode the super hero(ok it was just me) was creating a device emulator for a KIOSK system based on the .NET Micro Framework. So far we’ve seen the application code from the custom emulator side of things but haven’t looked at any of the XAML yet. So what is this XAML stuff…

Yesterday the .NET MF team announced that the .NET Micro Framework will be available in the MSDN subscriptions starting with the OS level subscription. This is great news as MSDN is already available in many distribution outlets world wide. With the recent addition of the Windows Embedded Family of products into MSDN you can get…